ITunes Freezes While Syncing iPod!

Hello,
I've seen tons of unanswered "itunes freezes" posts, but I'm hoping to get lucky. Before I even upgraded iTunes, a freezing problem started happening.
Anytime I copy some mp3's to my ipod, I see it add them all and then it goes into the "Syncing iPod - Please Wait" message, and iTunes freezes every single time. In order to use iTunes again, I have to completely CtrlAltDel and close iTunes then disconnect and reconnect my iPod. After I'll be able to reopen iTunes and use it until I have to sync my iPod again.
I'm using an iPod classic (160GB) and Windows Vista.
I've already tried completely uninstalling iTunes and all other programs by Apple Inc. and reinstalling iTunes and the problem still happens. I even upgraded to the latest version of iTunes and the problem still occurs.
I've tried changing the drive letter of my iPod that doesn't help either.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks so much!
Message was edited by: livingaftermidnight

OK, I read your first message again and can't seem to see where you wrote you didn't have all the music on your PC, but never mind, at least we got that straight before you went and restored your iPod!
I'm afraid you've run into the situation where it is risky to only have a copy of your music on the ipod, because everyone needs to restore their ipod sooner or later....that being said, you can get a 3rd-party utility to copy your music off your ipod onto an external hard drive, perhaps?
Or else try an ipod reset (which will NOT erase the music on your iPod), but I don't think that is going to help your syncing woes.

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